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Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 9/6/19, 9:03 PM ET House probes military travel to troubled Trump resort: Politico Natasha Bertrand, national security correspondent for Politico, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that military flights may have been making unusual stop-overs at Donald Trump’s Scotland resort as a means of pumping money into Trump’s share tweet email save Embed Not long before Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, he was publicly determined to...
In early Spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the U.S. to Kuwait to deliver supplies. What wasn’t routine was where the crew stopped along the way: President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow, Scotland. The week before, Trump suggested he was prepared to lobby for the next G7 summit to be held at his business in Miami, creating a situation in which leaders of many of the world’s most powerful countries would be required to spend considerable resources at a struggling business in order to participate in official diplomatic engagements with the U.S. government.
But as the Politico report made clear, on previous trips, the C-17 had landed “at U.S. air bases such as Ramstein Air Base in Germany or Naval Station Rota in Spain to refuel.” It would also occasionally stop “in the Azores and once in Sigonella, Italy, both of which have U.S. military sites.”But, no. The plane instead went to the Scottish airport nearest the president’s private business – and had the crew stay there, despite costs in excess of per-diem allowances.
It’s against this backdrop that some in the military apparently settled on a plan that would benefit both the president’s money-losing business and the nearby money-losing airport.
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